An annual celebrity auction was held yesterday in Winnipeg Canada to raise funds for a local food bank. The annual Empty Bowls Dinner provides attendees a bread and soup dinner and a chance to bid on autographed bowls signed by Hollywood a-list celebrities, musicians, and cartoonists. Among the celebrity bowls included bowls signed by Family […]
Brainwaves creator Betsy Streeter recently spent time at the Center of Arts, Technology and Science (CATS) to teach kids about cartooning, teaching art and animation. The local ABC affiliate was there and aired the segment on their “The View from the Bay.“
The Cincinnati Enquirer has published a small interview with Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell about the origin of his feature. Q: Was (Mutts) difficult to create? A: The names were the tough part. For a long time, Earl was named Zero. I mentioned it to Charles Schulz, and he told me to name him after my […]
Photos courtesy of John Hart StudiosPerhaps no other cartoonist, with so little cartooning experience, has ever taken on such a iconic and highly syndicated feature as Mason Mastroianni has with the famous comic strip B.C.. Under normal circumstances, an aspiring cartoonist and his comic feature would be given a developmental period to work with an […]
On the heals of yesterday’s story in the New York Times about Scott Adams taking over one the day-to-day business of one of his restaurants, comes news from the Times of London which lists Scott as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers. Notable names in the top 10 include Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Tom […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams went into the restaurant business a decade ago at two locations: Stacey’s Cafe in Waterford and Pleasanton California. Pleasanton has doen well, but the Waterford location has struggled and as business partner Stacey Belkin has been over-extended and Scott began to take on more of the day-to-day operations of the Waterford […]
This weeks guest on the Comics Coast to Coast podcast is Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano. This week Francesco Marciuliano mixes it up with us from a cell phone, on this very silly interview. ‘Ces is a very funny guy, and he lets us in on the legacy of Sally Forth and what it’s like […]
The Houston Chronicle announced yesterday that they are printing all of their comics in color starting on Monday, but that they are dropping a full page of comics. The dropped comics will still be carried on their online offerings. Why is the paper doing this? It’s a cost-cutting measure. The Chronicle has run more comics […]
How cool is this? Over on Tom Tomorrow’s blog he writes that he created a series of cartoons that can be projected onto sides of buildings in San Francisco and Seattle as part of promotional efforts for a new mobile service. Passers by can text their punch-line into the empty word balloon, completing the cartoon. […]
I’m scheduled to interview B.C. cartoonist Mason Mastroianni tonight. If you have any questions about B.C. or Mason’s work on the feature, feel free to email them to me or add them into the comments and I’ll be sure to ask him.UPDATE: Had a good interview with Mason and he was very open to all […]
Secret Asian Man creator Tak Toyoshima will be the featured speaker at the Asian Festival on the campus of Baylor University (Waco, TX) tomorrow night. He will be speaking on the topic of “Asian Americans in the Mainstream.” Tickets are required for the banquet (where Tak will speak). Check the above link for details.
The 2008 Glyph Comics Award nominations are now being accepted for its 2008 competition. The award spotlights the best black comics and creators in the industry. If your comic strip or it’s material is black-themed, you’re eligible for the award. The award defines black-themed as: any comic with any combination of the following: a black […]
King Features Syndicate has committed $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy, who served as King Features Syndicate Editor in Chief from 1997 until his untimely death earlier this year. The fund will be administered through the National Cartoonist Society Foundation, the non-profit art of the NCS dedicated to advancing […]
Five of the nations largest newspaper companies are in talks to create their own advertising network in hopes of recapturing ad revenue that hasn’t been made the leap from their print products to their web offerings. The consortium will create a common ad sales force to help compete against ad networks set up by Yahoo […]
From E&P we learn that Keith Knight, creator of the K Chronicles and (th)ink will be at the Cartoon Art Museum on November 17 as part of their “Cartoonist-in-Residence” program. He’ll be there to talk shop, sign books, etc.